Editing Dennis Brain (section)

==New works and commemorations==
As well as the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Britten wrote [[Canticle III: Still falls the rain|Canticle III: ''Still falls the rain'']] with Brain in mind; Brain and Pears, accompanied by the composer, gave the first performance at a concert in 1955 in which Brain also premiered two pieces by [[Alan Bush]].<ref>"A Memorial Concert", ''The Times'', 29 January 1955, p. 8</ref>  Other composers who wrote for Brain were [[Malcolm Arnold]] (Horn Concerto No. 2),<ref name=to>"Mr Dennis Brain: A Renowned Horn Player", ''The Times'', 2 September 1957, p. 10</ref> [[Lennox Berkeley]] ([[Trio for horn, violin, and piano (Berkeley)|Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano]]),<ref>Redding, Joan, and Peter Dickinson. [https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000044828 "Berkeley, Sir Lennox]", ''Grove Music Online'', Oxford University Press, 2001. Retrieved 14 June 2021 {{subscription required}} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180605084944/http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000044828 |date=5 June 2018 }}</ref> [[York Bowen]] (Concerto for Horn, Strings and Timpani),<ref>Gamble and Lynch, p. 177</ref> [[Paul Hindemith|Hindemith]] (Concerto for Horn and Orchestra),<ref>Meucci, Renato, and Gabriele Rocchetti. [https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000013353 "Horn"], ''Grove Music Online'', Oxford University Press, 2001. Retrieved 14 June 2021 {{subscription required}} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204054957/https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000013353 |date=4 February 2021 }}</ref> [[Gordon Jacob]] ([[Horn Concerto (Jacob)|Concerto for Horn and String Orchestra]]),<ref name="dm" /> [[Elisabeth Lutyens]] (Horn Concerto),<ref name="dm">Mitchell, Donald. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/943460 "Dennis Brain"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614175717/https://www.jstor.org/stable/943460 |date=2021-06-14 }}, ''Tempo'', New Series, no. 45 (1957), pp. 16–17. Retrieved 14 June 2021</ref>  [[Humphrey Searle]] (''Aubade'' for Horn and Strings),<ref>Gamble and Lynch, p. 186</ref>  [[Mátyás Seiber]] (''Notturno'' for Horn and Strings),<ref>Gamble and Lynch, p. 173</ref> and [[Ernest Tomlinson]] (''Rhapsody and Rondo'' for Horn and Orchestra, ''Romance and Rondo'' for Horn and Orchestra).<ref>Gamble and Lynch, p. 180</ref>

[[Francis Poulenc]] wrote ''[[Élégie pour cor et piano|Élégie for Horn and Piano]]'' to commemorate Brain's death. It was premiered by the BBC in a broadcast on 17 February 1958, played by [[Neill Sanders]] with Poulenc at the piano.<ref>"Poulenc's Elegy for Dennis Brain", ''The Times'', 8 February 1958, p. 3</ref>

In its obituary notice, ''[[The Times]]'' said of Brain:
{{blockindent|The traditional uncertainties of the instrument never seemed to have occasioned a fluffed note from him and no technical difficulties ever appeared to cause him the slightest apprehension. He professed to have no nerves, though his playing lacked nothing in musical sensitiveness, but insensitiveness to risk seems to have exacted a heavy price and English music will be poorer by the loss of so brilliant an executant at the early age of 36.<ref name=to/>|}}